Re: Preventing the use of CC: in outlook express.

Is this a standard mailing list? AKA, does it always get sent to the same people?If this is the case, then create a template.

Create a group, ( Instructions to follow). Then, create a Template. In a new message window, per the instructions below, either enter the group name, or your own address in the To field, and the Group, or the addresses, in the BCC field. Now, File | Save As and Save it to the Desktop.

You will have an icon on your Desktop now with, depending on how you set it up, that when clicked on will open a new message window with the To and BCC fields already filled in. Just enter the new message and send.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"WSS Dave" <WSSDave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:BC4B35DF-38A3-4170-8147-4A55E729C845@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you Michael. I was afraid that would be the case. Most of our
recipients don't want their email address made available to others. This was
a serious hardship for us when one of our conscientious employees,
inadvertantly, selected CC: instead of BCC:, the resulting emails contain the
names and address of all of the recipients. Hense, the request for a method
to "eliminate" the option of CC: completely.
We set up our email with a To: "Our Valued customer"... with our own email
address. We then BCC the recipients. (With one exception in the last 4
years... the reason for this request. It was very costly to us. Our clients
were not happy.)
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SewVac


"Michael Santovec" wrote:

I don't believe that there is any way to disable CC in OE.

Since CC is functionally the same as TO, you'd also have to disable TO
and I don't think you'd want to do that.

Potentially, something could be done at your SMTP mail server, assuming
that you have an in-house mail server. It would need to check the TO
and CC headers and reject the message if there are multiple e-mail
addresses or even strip or truncate the headers. Or possibly you could
write or find some SMTP proxy software that would filter on the sending.
In any case, this needs to be done outside of Outlook Express.

As for printing, for incoming messages, OE will print only the name if
that is provided. OE will print the e-mail address only if that is all
that is provided.

As for sending, to control what the recipient can print you'd have to
remove e-mail addresses from the TO and CC headers.

Note that for routing, the mail servers don't use the TO and CC headers.
The actual e-mail addresses are carried outside of the message. That's
how BCC works since the BCC header is not included in the sent message.
But some mail servers will reject messages unless there is a TO header
with a validly formatted e-mail address. This isn't a requirement for
e-mail transmission but rather a spam control measure.



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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"WSS Dave" <WSSDave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:23D5C2F4-4CB8-48C7-B1B0-FE085D94194D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Is there a way to "prevent" the use of Carbon Copy in sending e-mails.
> We
> would prefer to have BCC: as the ONLY choice. (To prevent the
> distribution
> of names and e-mail addresses with our e-mails to multiple
> recipients.) Even
> better, be able to print the NAME, but NOT THE EMAIL ADDRESS.
> -- > SewVac




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